ksmbd_tcp_new_connection(9)

💅 ksmbd_tcp_new_connection(9)

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ today's main character is ksmbd_tcp_new_connection — yes that's the whole function name, it's a mouthful, we love her anyway 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ksmbd_tcp_new_connection — the girl who spins up a brand-new tcp session the moment somebody mounts 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ksmbd_tcp_new_connection (struct socket *client_sk );

literally one argument, no drama, we stan a low-maintenance signature 💜

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• client_sk — the socket that's attached to the new connection. that's her. that's the vibe check. 🔥

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea ☕ — whenever a new connection is requested, this function creates a conn thread (which is also called the session thread, iykyk, two names one icon 💅) so that all the new incoming smb requests from that connection actually get handled 😭

like… somebody knocks, and we hand them their own personal thread to hang out in. main character energy for every single connection fr fr 🌈

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 — slay, success 💖
• otherwise — an error 🫠 (not slay)

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c 👀
• kvec_array_init(9)
• get_conn_iovec(9)
• ksmbd_kthread_fn(9)
• ksmbd_tcp_run_kthread(9)
• ksmbd_tcp_readv(9)
• ksmbd_tcp_read(9)
• create_socket(9)

go read those too, they're all in the group chat 🧚💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie ✨ this came out of ./fs/smb/server, dated October 2026 — no cap, that's the source and the version right there, mwah 💋🎀🍓